----------------------------------- azndragon Mon Mar 24, 2003 9:59 pm RPG Tutorial ----------------------------------- I didn't want this to take up space in the Tutorial forum, so I posted it here. Noticing a lack of decent RPG's made by Turing out there, besides QFTB and mine of course (may be a little biased) :), I'm wondering if anyone here would be interested in seeing a little Tutorial on how to make a good RPG. I've already started, it's like 6 pages in Word, but I don't want to spend too much time on it, if there is not enough interest in it. My guide will go through the RPG-making process by providing helpful Turing commands and how to utilize them, and general RPG elements that you should add to make it more interesting. Post your comments here. ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Mar 24, 2003 10:05 pm ----------------------------------- I think it would be a great idea! personally I know that many programmers who consider themselves above average to try to pull something big off for final projects... such as an RPG. I really hate to see those kids fail because of setting their goals too high. This tutorial should ether help them with the development or perhaps make them think about it some more before tackling the task. :D ----------------------------------- Blade Mon Mar 24, 2003 10:19 pm ----------------------------------- i think it would be a pretty good idea.. i've been thinking about recreating the sweetest game alive... MARIO!! and it would help me out quite a bit ----------------------------------- Asok Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:22 pm ----------------------------------- FYI: Mario is not considered an RPG. POW! (Those who know Mario know what I'm talking about) ----------------------------------- Blade Tue Mar 25, 2003 8:20 am ----------------------------------- i know mario isnt consitered an rpg, is more of an action/adventure... but he will probably write something quite useful for that.. ----------------------------------- Dan Tue Mar 25, 2003 6:04 pm ----------------------------------- i guse you guys have not played mario rpg or mario paper :wink: ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Mar 25, 2003 6:07 pm ----------------------------------- oh, I played mario RPG... sick game... but I think I got stuck at some impossible area where I couldnt pass through something... :? w/e ----------------------------------- Asok Tue Mar 25, 2003 6:08 pm ----------------------------------- he said mario, not mario x, (64,paper,sunshine and some other shitty ones) seriously, Super Mario on the SNES is the greatest mario. ----------------------------------- Dan Tue Mar 25, 2003 6:13 pm ----------------------------------- i like mario rpg for snes it was a great show of how you can make 2d pichers look 3d will using very litte merroy. almost n64 looking graficks on a snes. also was a good rpg :wink: ----------------------------------- Asok Tue Mar 25, 2003 7:56 pm ----------------------------------- anyone who wants to play the shittiest mario of all time look for a SNES ROM (good luck finding a real copy) called "Where is Mario" it is literally the worst game ever, I'm not even sure if it was released. ----------------------------------- Blade Tue Mar 25, 2003 8:56 pm ----------------------------------- you mean mario is missing?... lol i hated that game, it was seriously the shittiest thing that they ever did... next to the n64.. i hated that console, and i hate the gamecube... they have these stupid games for kids that are like 4 years old... if anybody wants a real console get the ps2, even better, screw consoles and get a computer... thats the best thing ... :D ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:03 pm ----------------------------------- real console? Xbox! Its more powerful in every aspect then my computer other then RAM amount (after my upgrades)... though its probably faster RAM there anyway :? but ya... if you want an awesome gaming experience, get yourself a 3Ghz P4 with a gig of RDRAM, 256MB Vid Card, hook it up to a 50" TV set and start shooting up ppl over a T3 line :!: doesnt get any better then this for about 2 more weeks 8) ----------------------------------- Blade Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:12 pm ----------------------------------- lol screw rd ram, unless you got a liquid cooler in there... rd overheats too much... but yea, p4 isnt as great as the athlons, seeing that they render 10 frames faster than the p4s... kinda wierd eh? they're slower in fsb, and cpu speed, but they render faster... hmm ----------------------------------- Asok Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:23 pm ----------------------------------- blade is right, the game is called Mario is Missing lol the worst game of all time, you'll be hardpressed to find a worse game, seriously pick up a ROM of it if you can, playing shity games makes you thankful for what you have ;) ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Mar 25, 2003 10:40 pm ----------------------------------- ya, processor speed alone doesnt do much... I doubt that those 3Ghz processors ever get anywhere near their potential... Considering bus is 533 at fastest (i think) and even RDRAM just gets to 800s. Whats the point of having your processor run at 4 times your memory speed? let alone bus and harddrive... thats why Macs with 1Ghz processors kick ass (atleast when it comes to graphics)... I think they got some funky architecture tripling its speed or something. ----------------------------------- Blade Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:41 am ----------------------------------- lol yeah, i was reading this article and both amd and intel are boosting up their bus... amd to 400 and intel to 800... then they have the new generation ovf vc's ----------------------------------- Dan Wed Mar 26, 2003 7:13 pm ----------------------------------- i have played mario is missing on the sens, that game is funny, i dont think you can evne die. personal i like the game cube console, it dose have some kid like games on it, but there are also some relay good ones on it. pso (phaysty stare online) is a kick ass game for it and so are the restdent evils and has any one see the perviews for F-Zero-X for game cube the graficks are amsaing. also i think that all the curent coslose out there are prity much tied for every thing right now, but we must rember that grasiks are not every thing, with out a good game with a good storey line all the graifks in the worald will not help you. beside if you whont good greficks the consolse will never beat the pc. ----------------------------------- JayLo Wed Mar 26, 2003 7:51 pm wasn't this post about RPGs? ----------------------------------- wasn't this post about RPGs? ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Mar 26, 2003 8:54 pm ----------------------------------- yo dan... even if you do have a 512MB Raderon Pro vid card... it would be pointless because games are made to be compatable with the most average system, so you not gonna see any difference against even a 64MB card... Unless you use 3DSMAX or Maya... but thats a different story. As for consoles... the games are build with exect hardware specs in mind, so they are optimized... ----------------------------------- Blade Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:35 pm ----------------------------------- the memory onboard doesnt matter for quality... its the bitrate... all the new graphic cards (newer radeons, and geforce) are 256 bit, whereas the newer consoles are only 128... the memory increases the speed of the card a little, but the gpu speeds are what really counts for high framerates ----------------------------------- jamez Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:29 pm ----------------------------------- he said mario, not mario x, (64,paper,sunshine and some other shitty ones) seriously, Super Mario on the SNES is the greatest mario. neg. super_mario_rpg = pwnage; ----------------------------------- Asok Thu Mar 27, 2003 5:10 pm ----------------------------------- neg. super_mario_rpg = pwnage; please, compared to other great RPG's, super mario RPG was garbage. The following diagram shows just how much better super mario is compaired to super mario RPG: super mario > Yoshi's Cookie > Tetris 2 > super mario RPG as you can clearly see, super mario pwns you.